Creating a Custom Table Using Lowercase or Mixed Case Columns Called "url" Will Break the Thumbnail View (Doc ID 1913802.1)

Last updated on MARCH 01, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

When creating a custom table containing a column called "url" in either lowercase or mixed-case OR when adding a custom field called "url" to an existing table will prevent OracleTextSearch from successfully indexing the 
weblayout URL value. 

This can have various side-effects: 

• The URL column in the IDCTEXTx table will be populated with NULL values 
• The "url" value in the SearchResults resultset returned by the GET_SEARCH_RESULTS service will be blank
• The thumbnail view will no longer display thumbnails. The links will be broken (in 11.1.1.8) or the thumbnail view page may break with the following error (in 11.1.1.5) 
• "Unable to generate HTML page. Unable to evaluate function. System execution error. computeRenditionUrl Null pointer is dereferenced"

Cause

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